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| Subject: Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Teaching Children How to Be Entrepreneurs Thu Apr 10, 2014 5:57 am | |
| More New Programs Promise to Build Children's Skills
CEO Kids: Putting the Small in Small Business
Jensen Bergman spent weeks preparing to pitch his team's business idea to investors. Minutes before the meeting, he was playing ping-pong outside the board room to stay calm.
Jensen is 9 years old.
"If they say no, it's going to be really upsetting for us," he said as one of his teammates wheeled up beside him on a tiny scooter.
Jensen was taking part in a program called "8 and Up" that teaches young children about entrepreneurship. As a culmination of the class, which met for six weeks in Princeton, N.J., and cost $350, Jensen and his 15 peers would soon pitch their idea—"Tiger KidsClub," a Friday night hangout space for children—to real, grown-up investors at Tigerlabs, a local seed fund.
As startups like WhatsApp and Oculus VR Inc. get snapped up for billions of dollars and others, like Twitter and Facebook, go public for more, younger children are filling classes, camps and other programs that promise to develop entrepreneurial skills in the pre-pubescent set.
More: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304640104579489453482766662?mod=WSJ_article_EditorsPicks |
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